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kevinshroff / KSMRD-Modded-Realtek-Audio-Drivers

KSMRD Modded Realtek drivers. Disables vendor post-processing (i.e. Waves MaxxAudio, SRS Audio, etc.) on all supported Realtek Audio devices.
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headphone/mic input selector not working? #5

Closed miinht closed 6 years ago

miinht commented 6 years ago

Does this feature work with the KSMRD modded drivers? As in, am I able to use the in-line mic on my headsets or earphones when I plug them in?

moriel5 commented 6 years ago

Why should you not?

What you won't see, unless you explicitly enable it in the settings (I forget what it is called), is the option to select between the internal speakers/microphone and the external ones, meaning that to switch between them, you need to connect/disconnect the external ones.

I personally prefer to have the option to change between them from the OS's audio input/output selector (volume selector in Windows 10, whatever the desktop environment I use in Linux brings me).

miinht commented 6 years ago

@moriel5 I'm confused. Does your external inline microphone (with the headset) work when you have the KSMRD drivers installed? Before when I used the stock dell audio drivers, they worked but after installing the KSMRD drivers they no longer work. Do they work for you?

I'm referring to the issue mentioned here:

https://github.com/kevinshroff/KSMRD-Modded-Realtek-Audio-Drivers/releases/tag/v3.0.1

Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the linked page and you see a note mentioning:

Note: if you WANT to keep the headphone/mic input selector from Waves MaxxAudio around, you can opt out of disabling the startup applications under Task Manager (step 2 above). This will allow the input/output selector prompt to show up, even though Waves MaxxAudio itself is not being used anymore to process any audio. I'm currently unsure if selecting an input i.e. "Mic In" even works through that prompt, or if opting out of this step causes any other problems, so if someone tests this let me know.

moriel5 commented 6 years ago

Ah, the only Dell laptops in the house are my mother's and my sister's (I unfortunately got a Lenovo IdeaPad 300-15, a horrible choice for the price), both are Vostro 3568, and I had never installed the KSMRD drivers on them, just the stock (with MaxxAudio purged), and later the UAD drivers (official Realtek drivers meant for Windows 10), that don't have anything to do with MaxxAudio in the first place (nor any other enhancements), due to their low weight (~30-60MB, as opposed to ~160-320MB), without any such issues, so I had just assumed that it would be the same with the KSMRD drivers.

kevinshroff commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately in-line mic's don't work with the combojack - requires having Waves MaxxAudio which is what we're trying to get rid of in the first place. Currently no solution for this, but I might try and tackle it in the future.

miinht commented 6 years ago

Ahh shoot that sucks. Why don't you reach out on reddit or the Dell subreddit for people that are interested in these modded drivers (I'm sure a lot of dell owners are, given how popular your first version was)? Perhaps someone might be able to fix the combojack issue? They could help accelerate the release of these drivers (move out of prerelease stage). Just a suggestion hahah